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Full-time Faculty of Education

Sal Badali Professor of Education PhD, University of British Columbia

Jane BaskwillRetired, Associate Professor of Education PhD, University of South Australia Research Areas: Practitioner action research; Arts-informed research methodologies; Gender and educational administration; Activism and professionalism; Literacy and gender; Arts-informed literacy learning; Family literacy and parental involvement in education; Early childhood literacy; Peace and environmental education.

Robert N. BérardProfessor of Education PhD, McMaster University Research Areas: Curriculum and instruction in history and social studies (elementary and secondary); history and politics of education; private/independent schooling and home schooling; teachers organizations; educational policy formation.

Geneviève Boulet Associate Professor of Education PhD, Université de Montréal Research Areas: The learning and teaching of number concepts; history of mathematics in mathematics education; language and mathematics.

Antony Card Dean of Education EdD, University of Southampton Research Areas: Teaching and research interests include pre-service and teacher education focused on health and physical education and health promoting schools.

Michelle Forrest Professor of Education PhD, Dalhousie University Research/Scholarship: Philosophy of education, philosophy in the classroom, aesthetics and the arts in values education, philosophy in teacher education, art as inquiry, controversy in the classroom, feminist ethics of practice in teacher education.

Fred French Associate Professor of Education PhD, University of Alberta Research Areas: Cognition, metacogntion, assessment for learning and learner strategies with an emphasis on exceptionality, learning disabilities and ADHD; educational legislation and administrative practices with an emphasis on student rights and inclusion.

Mary Jane Harkins Professor of Education PhD, Dalhousie University Research Areas: University, school and community collaborations; globalization; indigenous knowledge and education; literacy assessment and instruction; learners with exceptionalities and inclusive education; teacher education; and international humanitarian issues.

Sara King Associate Professor PhD, Dalhousie University Registered Psychologist Research Interests: Social functioning in children with disruptive behaviour disorders and chronic illness, aggression and ADHD, assessment and intervention for complex learning and behavioural disorders.

Eva Knoll Assistant Professor of Education PhD, University of Exeter Research Areas: Mathematical research situations in the classroom (RSC); research experience in pure mathematics as a learning context; affect in mathematics learning; mathematics in art and in crafts; arts in mathematics.

Amélie Lemieux Assistant Professor of LiteraciesResearch Areas: Literacies including multimodality,
multiliteracies, digital literacies, and maker education. Engagement in educational settings. Qualitative research methods including but not
limited to ethnography; phenomenology; phenomenological hermeneutics;
posthumanism. The intersections between literacies and the
arts.

Andrew Manning Professor of Education PhD, University of Ottawa Research Areas: Literacy and new technologies; critical literacies; the social construction of literacy and literacy instruction; teacher research and research methodologies.

Jessie-Lee McIsaac Assistant Professor/Tier II Canada Research Chair in Early Childhood: Diversity and Transitions Faculty of Education/Department of Child and Youth Study PhD, University of Alberta Research Areas: Early childhood development, health and well-being; School-based health promotion and healthy living; Social determinants of health; Early childhood and educational policy; Engaged scholarship and research collaborations; Qualitative and participatory research methods; Knowledge mobilization.

Jamie MetsalaGail and Stephen Jarislowsky Chair in Learning Disabilities Professor of Education PhD, University of Toronto Research Areas: Reading disabilities and reading acquisition, social cognition in children with nonverbal learning disabilities, development of speech perception & phonological awareness, learning disabilities.

Hong WangAssociate Professor of Education PhD, Queen’s University Research Areas: Teaching English as a second or foreign language; ESL/EFL pedagogy; ESL/EFL teacher education and professional development; language policies; ESL/EFL curriculum implementation and evaluation.

Professor Emerita/Emeritus

William Hare Professor Emeritus PhD, University of Toronto Research Areas: Moral aspects of education and teaching;
open-mindedness; critical thinking and the intellectual virtues; the
philosophical and educational ideas of Bertrand Russel; philosophy in
teacher education.

Lorri NeilsenProfessor Emerita PhD, University of New Hampshire Research Areas: Writing as inquiry; poetic and literary anthropology;
ethnography; narrative and other qualitative research perspectives,
including feminist research practices; aesthetic and digital literacies;
popular culture and cultural politics.